We can divide the games themselves into two categories, mainstream (i.e Windows) games and games developed for the Linux platform.
To be fair, they do muddy the waters some later in the article but I consider games with a distinct cross-platform emphasis a class in themselves. Torcs, Flightgear and Cube on my machine.
Yes, it is the "total lockdown/no mercy" approach to school that I find most disturbing too. As it is the prisoner's first directive to escape, we clever students (way back when) in our class always thought it was our task to keep the teachers and administration on their toes. 95% of the doors had locks that could be credit carded. Nuff said:)
Aurora bounce is a quite well known propagation technique in VHF amateur radio. Presumably, this is an attempt to artificially create these conditions reliably.
How many world-class metropolitan cities in the U.S. have subway systems? How many lesser-class metros have comprehensive bus systems?
And how many corner stores, how many neighborhood main streets, have been eaten by suburban WalMarts?
For that matter, where is the nuclear family? You live in the same city as your parents? They live with you? And will your kids be there for you?
The U.S. transportation system is a basket case. (Stated as it is announced that Amtrak will lose funding because it hasn't paid for itself. [And what transport system has? But no matter.]) I'll miss it.
Those of us who have seen Dark Star know how that worked out with the computer.
In the beginning was the word? I don't think so. Even HAL had an eye. If they haven't created an entity with the common sense of a three year old yet, it is because they haven't created an entity with enough "sense".
Without creating a core of "Being in the world", with an emphasis on "in", this project is only likely to spit out some amusing correlations. Too ambitious for our current knowledge of "applied" metaphysics and epistemology. And I suspect better to work from experience toward concepts rather than backwards starting with the word like this project will apparently attempt. But it may stumble upon something useful about the emergence of concept relationships.
I've been saying that the desktop is ready for Grandma for a couple years now. Set up one old neighbor with Fedora last year, in fact, and she's still webbing and emailing away. The installs of many distributions seem comparable to an XP install as well so the knowledgeable user shouldn't be afraid of linux. It's different so it just takes a little learning.
Installing subsequent software can be another issue. That is particularly on my mind this week because I prefer that mother of all program installs, the upgrade, over a wipe and restore/reconfigure. But it means something like half an hour for the official process and about 10 hours to wipe up the broken bits. And that is going to quickly take a person to dependencies, permissions, restores, modules.conf, processes and configuration files. The tough question is how much this can be automated among the programs and the programs that depend upon them.
But there is an important distinction here. When we think linux upgrade, we aren't usually just thinking a new kernel. We are upgrading literally hundreds of programs and applications at once. So it is a matter of perception. A linux upgrade is like a Windows user upgrading his OS AND EVERY OTHER PROGRAM ON THE COMPUTER at the same time. Which can be both cool and a pain.
Not surprisingly, the repercussions - particularly the rapidly growing number of shows available for the plucking online - terrify industry executives, who remember only too well what Napster and other file-sharing programs did to the music industry.
So they are terrified that their sales will continue to increase during a recession?
Whenever I want a warm, family-oriented moment I stop by that passage in Leviticus on how to do slavery up right in the eyes of the Lord. That one centainly did give "the Hebrews a sense of 'something different' from their neighbors".
Actually, I've been extremely annoyed recently to see how many of my acquaintances have "gone biblical" and decided (probably without ever reading a bit of it in the original authors) that several hundred years of the Enlightenment were worthless.
Now let's get out that bible and see what Jesus says about stem cells.
I'll have that young whippersnapper know that those of us who loaded up our home computers from cassette tape recorders could tell by the volume whether we would get a good load and even learn to tell when the load was about done for specific programs.
Just the majority, not all of them. Rainbow is big on tying all their discounts to loyalty cards where I am. It could have been the extra variety of a larger Cub store, but I would like to think when a Cub (which uses regular coupon books and newpaper coupons) dropped down about four blocks from our neighborhood Rainbow, the lack of loyalty cards was a factor in the prolonged and painful dead of that Rainbow over about nine months.
Re:Another one from the "Duh!" file
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There's a mirror in here somewhere. You stole my reply to the comment.
It makes perfect sense: Why settle for Win4Lin? Why settle for VMWare? Why settle for WINE? When you can purchase genuine Virtual Windows (TM) and enjoy an authentic Microsoft Windows experience!
With precision-bioengineering at the nanoscale level this space-age discovery could undoubtedly syncronize with the pulse to promote blood flow and essential extension when needed. Shaped for action and featuring convenience hip straps this dual-action product is guaranteed to satisfy her.
There's another moral question that is difficult to think about:
17% re-offend -- that's a lot
but it means 83% don't -- that's also a lot.
If the sentence is life in prison without parole, I suppose that is one thing. But for years in Minnesota there has been a push to lock people up in criminal mental wards "indefinitely" _after_ they have completed their sentences. An interesting slippery slope there.
This comes at a time when the sliding dollar has meant that H-P ink cartridges sold in Europe are becoming much more expensive than equivalent ones in the U.S. "We are not trying to make money on this," Mr. Holm says
But he SAYS they aren't being greedy. As every libertarian knows, "If you can't trust business, who can you trust?"
Heh, heh.
It looks like a great year for PostgreSQL
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Oxford University announced a while back that they will be scrapping most of their proprietary DBs for PostgreSQL over the course of '05:
You've got to be joking about PostgreSQL having a weak optimizer. If it's weak, only the computer can tell.
My experience with a small database I'm working on at home is similar. For example: 6600 record test DB, server-side procedure for a regional report by first three zip code numerals presented by descending sum with a "blank or foreign" bucket (an even 400 sums in this case) is an eyeblink across the home network coming from a 900 mhz slot II and a 5400 rpm IDE drive using PostgreSQL 7.6.4. I'm pleasantly surprised and am seriously considering using real data and not drawing from temp tables built overnight for all demographic summary reports.
(I envision a modern variation on Penn Gilette's article on airport security about setting up a startup program for your laptop that flashes 10....9....8....7....6....5.....)
I suppose the added value of this thing is that it is one piece instead of two and nobody has to set up the persistent config and home directories? Yeah, yeah. That's sure hard -- but people do pay for the smallest conveniences.
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We can divide the games themselves into two categories, mainstream (i.e Windows) games and games developed for the Linux platform.
To be fair, they do muddy the waters some later in the article but I consider games with a distinct cross-platform emphasis a class in themselves. Torcs, Flightgear and Cube on my machine.
Yes, it is the "total lockdown/no mercy" approach to school that I find most disturbing too. As it is the prisoner's first directive to escape, we clever students (way back when) in our class always thought it was our task to keep the teachers and administration on their toes. 95% of the doors had locks that could be credit carded. Nuff said :)
I read just the other day that there is a pilot program to "tag and release" Canadians at a couple ports of entry using RFID.
i gn +visitors/2100-1039_3-5552120.html
http://news.com/States+to+test+ID+chips+on+fore
Aurora bounce is a quite well known propagation technique in VHF amateur radio. Presumably, this is an attempt to artificially create these conditions reliably.
why are they allowd to drive?
Silly question. BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO.
How many world-class metropolitan cities in the U.S. have subway systems? How many lesser-class metros have comprehensive bus systems?
And how many corner stores, how many neighborhood main streets, have been eaten by suburban WalMarts?
For that matter, where is the nuclear family? You live in the same city as your parents? They live with you? And will your kids be there for you?
The U.S. transportation system is a basket case.
(Stated as it is announced that Amtrak will lose funding because it hasn't paid for itself. [And what transport system has? But no matter.]) I'll miss it.
Those of us who have seen Dark Star know how that worked out with the computer.
In the beginning was the word? I don't think so. Even HAL had an eye. If they haven't created an entity with the common sense of a three year old yet, it is because they haven't created an entity with enough "sense".
Without creating a core of "Being in the world", with an emphasis on "in", this project is only likely to spit out some amusing correlations. Too ambitious for our current knowledge of "applied" metaphysics and epistemology. And I suspect better to work from experience toward concepts rather than backwards starting with the word like this project will apparently attempt. But it may stumble upon something useful about the emergence of concept relationships.
I've been saying that the desktop is ready for Grandma for a couple years now. Set up one old neighbor with Fedora last year, in fact, and she's still webbing and emailing away. The installs of many distributions seem comparable to an XP install as well so the knowledgeable user shouldn't be afraid of linux. It's different so it just takes a little learning.
Installing subsequent software can be another issue. That is particularly on my mind this week because I prefer that mother of all program installs, the upgrade, over a wipe and restore/reconfigure. But it means something like half an hour for the official process and about 10 hours to wipe up the broken bits. And that is going to quickly take a person to dependencies, permissions, restores, modules.conf, processes and configuration files. The tough question is how much this can be automated among the programs and the programs that depend upon them.
But there is an important distinction here. When we think linux upgrade, we aren't usually just thinking a new kernel. We are upgrading literally hundreds of programs and applications at once. So it is a matter of perception. A linux upgrade is like a Windows user upgrading his OS AND EVERY OTHER PROGRAM ON THE COMPUTER at the same time. Which can be both cool and a pain.
Not surprisingly, the repercussions - particularly the rapidly growing number of shows available for the plucking online - terrify industry executives, who remember only too well what Napster and other file-sharing programs did to the music industry.
So they are terrified that their sales will continue to increase during a recession?
Whenever I want a warm, family-oriented moment I stop by that passage in Leviticus on how to do slavery up right in the eyes of the Lord. That one centainly did give "the Hebrews a sense of 'something different' from their neighbors".
Actually, I've been extremely annoyed recently to see how many of my acquaintances have "gone biblical" and decided (probably without ever reading a bit of it in the original authors) that several hundred years of the Enlightenment were worthless.
Now let's get out that bible and see what Jesus says about stem cells.
I'll have that young whippersnapper know that those of us who loaded up our home computers from cassette tape recorders could tell by the volume whether we would get a good load and even learn to tell when the load was about done for specific programs.
I only have to wrap myself up in the warm and protective arms of a Microsoft EULA to feel the shielding umbrella of accountability.
McGrath slays me.
Just the majority, not all of them. Rainbow is big on tying all their discounts to loyalty cards where I am. It could have been the extra variety of a larger Cub store, but I would like to think when a Cub (which uses regular coupon books and newpaper coupons) dropped down about four blocks from our neighborhood Rainbow, the lack of loyalty cards was a factor in the prolonged and painful dead of that Rainbow over about nine months.
There's a mirror in here somewhere. You stole my reply to the comment.
It makes perfect sense: Why settle for Win4Lin? Why settle for VMWare? Why settle for WINE? When you can purchase genuine Virtual Windows (TM) and enjoy an authentic Microsoft Windows experience!
With precision-bioengineering at the nanoscale level this space-age discovery could undoubtedly syncronize with the pulse to promote blood flow and essential extension when needed. Shaped for action and featuring convenience hip straps this dual-action product is guaranteed to satisfy her.
There's another moral question that is difficult to think about:
17% re-offend -- that's a lot
but it means 83% don't -- that's also a lot.
If the sentence is life in prison without parole, I suppose that is one thing. But for years in Minnesota there has been a push to lock people up in criminal mental wards "indefinitely" _after_ they have completed their sentences. An interesting slippery slope there.
So now we can guess that an evolved gasseous life form drives blazers?
I'm sure many students would pay to see Kant frag Hume over the necessity of the transcendental manifold.
Or
Evolution: Fang vs. Claw
Or
Chemistry: Nature's own Legos
Or
Sim Patients: Night Shift Pre-Med Resident
The key term is "corporate trainers" as this deals with vocational education of work skills. But how appropriate for any intellectual development?
Coincidence that I'm curerntly catching up my reading with Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death." I think not!
This comes at a time when the sliding dollar has meant that H-P ink cartridges sold in Europe are becoming much more expensive than equivalent ones in the U.S. "We are not trying to make money on this," Mr. Holm says
But he SAYS they aren't being greedy. As every libertarian knows, "If you can't trust business, who can you trust?"
Heh, heh.
Oxford University announced a while back that they will be scrapping most of their proprietary DBs for PostgreSQL over the course of '05:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0
You've got to be joking about PostgreSQL having a weak optimizer. If it's weak, only the computer can tell.
My experience with a small database I'm working on at home is similar. For example: 6600 record test DB, server-side procedure for a regional report by first three zip code numerals presented by descending sum with a "blank or foreign" bucket (an even 400 sums in this case) is an eyeblink across the home network coming from a 900 mhz slot II and a 5400 rpm IDE drive using PostgreSQL 7.6.4. I'm pleasantly surprised and am seriously considering using real data and not drawing from temp tables built overnight for all demographic summary reports.
But, then, I thought Voyager was OK too.
Another movie does NOT excite me. My wife and I agreed that we got it right at the $2 theatre's dollar night last time.
I would caution Berman that "larger" isn't always better.
Make sure the track time counts down to zero.
Maybe "Stairway to Heaven"?
(I envision a modern variation on Penn Gilette's article on airport security about setting up a startup program for your laptop that flashes 10....9....8....7....6....5.....)
I suppose the added value of this thing is that it is one piece instead of two and nobody has to set up the persistent config and home directories? Yeah, yeah. That's sure hard -- but people do pay for the smallest conveniences.
Yeah, the example the one article makes. Look for laws coming soon protecting pharmaceutical companies from pesky researchers testing their drugs.
IE installs pretty easily in Wine. I've done it several times before giving up. It's just never RUN for me. I guess your performance may vary.